Aaron reviewed Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
Automating Inequality
4 stars
A lot of food for thought here. Eubanks examines how the state uses technology to control people experience poverty. Tools which the general public presumably views as neutral, or can be sold as a cost-cutting measure, actually have baked into them the presumptions that our society makes about the poor. The stories in the book are chilling, and the way in which technology merely reinforces a pre-existing contempt for the poor is infuriating.